There are no safe categories

I am infuriated by last week's Supreme Court ruling, and by the stance of those who argue that "woman" is a safe space into which cis women can retreat from the depredations of the world.

It has taken me a long time to call myself a feminist. Looking back, I think part of that was complacency. My world growing up was dominated by women. Most of the men in my family, apart from a beloved uncle, had been made redundant before I was born. I was attended to by my Mum and my Grandma and my twin aunties. I had a scholarship to an all-girls sch…